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The uses of the future in early modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth ; with a foreword by Peter Burke.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: xx, 242 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203864159
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  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- 4. Turkish futures : prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 5. 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding' : Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- 7. Planning ahead : a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- 8. The future now : chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- 9. Prophetic architecture : Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- 10. Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- 11. Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 12. 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations' : the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- 4. Turkish futures : prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 5. 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding' : Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- 7. Planning ahead : a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- 8. The future now : chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- 9. Prophetic architecture : Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- 10. Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- 11. Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 12. 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations' : the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.

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